| Filled with platitudes and triteness, the speech utterly failed to inject renewed hope at one of the most important stages of the year. |
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| But the singers' interaction with one another introduced just enough playfulness to the proceedings to dispel the threat of triteness. |
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| The intense sense of meaning of this moment clashes violently with the triteness of the form into which I have packed it. |
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| The show doesn't get much deeper than that, whether about grief or friendship, though its triteness is nothing if not sincere. |
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| Burns' dialogue has a natural, unforced rhythm that contains a fair number of wry one-liners that compensate for occasional bouts of triteness and pretentiousness. |
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| Their latest single Gun is a perfect example of how to make pop and avoid the pitfalls of triteness and cliché. |
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| The descriptions have the triteness of screenplay boilerplate, as if the author expected a movie director to evoke the scenes he sets. |
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| They have warded off the triteness of money making. |
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| Naked, its basic triteness is horribly pale and shiversome. |
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| It risks triteness to note that during the past two decades ethnonationalism has been an extremely consequential force throughout the first, second, and third worlds. |
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